AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees
Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.

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Lubi Thomas commented
Definitely need this feature ASAP!
We have multiple part-time employees working different days, and manually going through and correcting Public Holidays and Leave is very time-consuming. We need the same work pattern set up in Australian Xero! -
Alix Anderson commented
Definitely need this feature ASAP!
We have multiple part time employees working different hours/ days and having to manually go through and correct Public Holidays and Leave is very time consuming. We need the same work pattern setup in Australian Xero! -
toby france commented
critical and needed asap
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Lubi Thomas commented
Critical feature for our Part time employees. the lack of this option is causing a lot of back of house labour to ensure everything is correct, including when PH land on days other than Monday's and leave management etc. Please get this on line ASAP.
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Andrew Cameron commented
This feature would be so handy for our part time employees for the reasons already mentioned.
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Mackenzie Stratford commented
Critical feature we should have access to
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Nancy Ibrahim commented
this feature should be added for part time employees, XERO Australia.
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Justine Sheehan commented
Don't know why this isn't available Australia
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Cathy Wicks commented
Very Disappointing this feature is not available in Australia
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Emma Petrig commented
Xero needs to keep up with the various payroll obligations employees face.
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Daniel Thompson commented
This is a must have for us, it's a real pain dealing with payroll without it! And I understand the feature has been available in NZ for some time... https://blog.xero.com/nz/product-updates/nz-payroll-bolstering-product-new-value/
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Giovanna D'Rozario commented
Can't believe this option is available overseas but not here!
This is a business critical feature we need otherwise we will need to go with another payroll solution
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Warrick Dunn commented
Should be a basic feature of all accounting software. Its actually such a but pain every single payroll!
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Karyn Muscat commented
I actually can't believe that this isn't an option. I thought I must have been doing something wrong as I thought this would be just a basic function. Xero really needs to get this implemented...
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Sarah Locke commented
This is really more than critical. This flexibility should be in a payroll system especially now that work conditions have become more flexible. I hope this can be done asap.
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Accounts Expertunity Pty Ltd commented
A hassle for me every time there's a public holiday or annual leave. The system assumes part-timers work reduced hours across 5 days, rather than allowing for the actual days worked. Along with all the other limitations of Xero payroll, I would suggest they integrate a 3rd-party solution (as Quickbooks did with Keypay) and spend their very limited development dollars on fixing the multitude of other ****-ups that we've been waiting years for.
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Ingrid Klausen commented
This function is essential for a flexible workplace with staff working a variety of work patterns, not just the part-time staff. This feature is available in other countries - PLEASE make it available to Australian subscribers!
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Daniel Frinsko commented
We currently have an employee asking about this; it's definitely a necessary feature to correctly account for employee leave and hours worked. Surprised that Xero does not allow for this.
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Tiarna Nouwland commented
Absolutely a critical function for ensuring leave taken and public holidays are correctly processed and paid.
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Nicolas Horton commented
This should also be possible for full time employees. I have 2 full time employees who work longer on a few days of the week and shorter the other days. But agree this is a critical function.